As we approach the Masters: If you love golf, check out this video.

[Faygo Kid]

Walter Hagen retired to Traverse City, MI, my favorite place. He was the king of Lil Bo's, just up the street from my dear friends who will have to put up with me nearby once I retire soon (unless Gov. Rick Snyder drives me away). Anyway, "The Haig" held court there every afternoon in the 50s-early 60s, and was close to a young golfer then. Check this video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkT1h9dEEAo

[Mudoria]

1. The Masters is the only tourney I watch each year

[Auggie]

2. Good account of Nicklaus' last Masters title 25 years ago:

By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer / Sunday, April 3, 2011

Jim Furyk and two other Pennsylvania juniors sat at the table closest to the television in the grill room just as the final round of the 1986 Masters came on. Hours later, every table in Media Heights clubhouse was taken.

Lee Trevino was in the Atlanta airport, drinking scotch at the bar as he watched the final minutes of the telecast, begging the airline to hold the flight just a little while longer.

Ernie Els, fresh off winning the South African Amateur, stayed up past midnight with his father to watch the unthinkable. Scott Verplank, who played the first two rounds with Jack Nicklaus that year, missed the cut and was back at Oklahoma State, getting goose bumps as Nicklaus charged through the back nine at Augusta National.

Everyone remembers where they were on April 13, 1986.

LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/03/sports/s124015D05.DTL

Trevino drinking in an airport bar -- hilarious.

[era veteran]

3. I lived in Augusta in the 50's & '60's, My Boy Scout Troop

raised money by parking cars on a residential street across from the club. Gary Player was staying with folks on the street and he would walk to the Tourney and stop and talk with us. He was involved with Scouting in South Africa.
In those days they had circular day passes that people would give us as they left late in the day. We all got to go in. I wish I had the autographs I collected on a Master's visor.
There is no place in golf that can rival this masterpiece of a course.

We made lots of money for the Troop too! Beat paper drives by a mile.